Meanings of modern parlance in English

It had, however, undergone what was known in modern parlance as 'a rebranding exercise'.

Onesimus, (if I may use modern parlance), ran away from his master, Philemon.

Yes, it is inconceivable; in modern parlance, it is "unthinkable."

A THANAH is a police-station in modern parlance.

In modern parlance it is simply called "the store."

Many of them lived apart, as recluses, and were, in modern parlance, cranks, who lacked mental poise.

This Ford was a fair specimen of that class, known in more modern parlance as a "Border Ruffian."

As you might imagine, raising a child like this presented what modern parlance might term some 'unique challenges' and 'atypical childhood experiences'.

Ken Nott is a 35-year-old talk-show host - or shock-jock to use modern parlance - working for Capital Live radio in London.

In modern parlance, the communities requiring some monument of art "called for tenders" and were prone to accept the lowest.

In modern parlance however the term culture has come to describe a particular collective of social interchange, a subset focused on the arts.

Law was convinced that the price of East India stock would fall and he was therefore, in modern parlance, taking a bear futures position.

This is the paradigm shift of modern parlance and after it has happened the scientific field returns to normal science, based on the new framework.

"Well," said the major reflectively, "in the terms of modern parlance, you certainly are up against it.